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Best UZR/150's Under Henry (700+ Innings) RF 19.5 Kapler 18.1 Betts 16.3 Victorino 14.6 Nixon 10.2 Nava 7.5 JD Drew 6.4 Cody Ross CF 12.1 Kike 9.1 Crisp 6.3 JBJ 4.6 Ellsbury SS 14.4 Alex Gonzalez 10.9 S Drew 6.5 Aviles 4.8 Cora 1B 11.3 AGon 9.5 Youk 6.3 T Shaw 4.2 Napoli 3B 11.2 Beltre 2.8 Youk 2.1 T Shaw 2B 9.1 Pedey 2.7 Holt -4.0 Bellhorn LF 2.1 Verdugo 2.0 J Gomes 1.0 Beni

The All Sox OPS Team Under Henry (2003-2021): 500+ PAs 1. Betts .893 CF 2. Nomar .869 SS 3. Ortiz .956 DH 4. Manny .982 LF 5. Beltre .919 3B 6. JD .917 DH 7. J Bay .915 RF (yikes!) 8. AGon .895 1B 9.VMart .865 C Bench: Youk .875, Nixon .857, VTek .784, Mueller .853 or Devers .847 SP (ERA-) 150+ IP 66 Pedro 67 Sale 83 Schilling 84 Lester 86 Price 88 Eovaldi RP WHIP (50+ IP) 0.81 Uehara 0.91 Kimbrel 1.00 Pabelbon 1.04 B-H Kim 1.10 Whitlock 1.11 Bard 13th arm? 1.17 Foulke 93 Beckett 1.18 A Miller 92 ERod 91 Wright 93 Buch 1.17 Aceves

What about 10 dollar bills, 20 dollar bills, 50 dollar bills and 100's? I never equated a $5 bill as being anything special. (Ok, maybe when I was like 10.)

He is just 27, so if any player should be considered for a 0+ year deal, he might be "the one," but for reasons we have already given, he should not be "that guy" the Sox choose to go all in on. This would be a nice IF for 2022: 1B Devers 2B Kike SS Correa 3B Bogey

I'm not saying I want Bogey as our SS going forward. I'm just saying I would not choose Carlos as "the one" splurge guy we sign. His age is a huge plus, but his offense is up and down, and his health is often an issue. If he can't stay healthy at 22-26, what will he be like at 30-36?

I didn't hate Beni. I just was not thrilled by his play.

Hard to know. He might have been trying to stir up some interest.

It's hard to compare their defense. I shutter to think of Beni in RF. Renfroe in Fenway's LF would not be all that bad. I'd call Renfroe & Beni close to even. The 5 players/prospects obtained makes the deal more promising.

It's like he's trolling Sox fans.

I totally agree. He's a better fielder than Bogey, but Bogey's bat is steady and better. His age is a big plus. His playoff heroics are not a repeatable skillset. I would not sign him for $24M x 10.

Yes, and not only that, he's had rather pedestrian numbers in all even years: .811 in '16 .728 in '18 .709 in '20 How is this worth $30M x 10+ years? He's at .811 in his last 1650 PAs (ages 23-26.)

I'm not upset. Again, you assume wrongly. And you said "If you ignore..." in a response to my post. That seems directed at me. Maybe, if you think before you go off on another hyper critical post, this would not happen, and again, I am not upset or angry. In fact, I am highly content and relaxed.

I can see how it might appear some did, as the year off in 2020 provided chances for many prospects to gain in 2021 (and fall.) I just can't see how we stayed even after adding so many good to great prospects by drafting and a little through trading.

I was not the one who called him a 5 dollar bill, initially. I was just responding with the same terminology used by a previous poster. Also, I was not aware a 5 dollar player was worth anything more than an average player. Again, you twist and twirl and assume wrongly. (I did not ignore anything. I was never high on Beni. I liked the trade and still do.)

Best Sox OPS Against Streaks in 2021 (35 IP+ with no overlaps) .498 Barnes (40 IP) 2.48 ERA .514 Ottavino (37) 1.96 .598 Houck (39) 2.97 .602 Pivetta (43) 3.16 .602 Taylor (45) 2.60 .613 Valdez (35) 3.82 .620 ERod (43) 3.12 .625 Eovaldi (48) 2.27 .631 Whitlock (38) 1.42 .631 Whitlock (35) 2.55 .638 Perez (37) 2.68 .647 Eovaldi (35) 3.63 .654 DHern (38) 2.82 .674 Eovaldi (59) 2.61 .697 Sale (35) 2.80 .707 Sawamura (37) 2.43 .726 Richards (43) 2.70 .753 ERod (38) 3.32

Best OPS Streaks of 2021 with 150+ PAs (no overlapping streaks): 1.114 Bogey (150 PAs) 4/5-5/15 1.056 JD M (150 PAs) 4/3-5/11 1.031 Devers (161 PAs) 4/18-5/21 .971 Schwarber (150) 8/15-9/30 .956 Dalbec (222 PAs) 6/17-9/18 .949 Devers (240 PAs) 5/23-8/1 .932 Kike (232) 6/28-9/7 .922 Renfroe (259) 6/20-9/8 .893 JD M (233) 5/12-7/21 .880 Verdugo (170) 4/5-5/21 .879 Renfroe (155) 5/1-6/16 .873 Bogey (155) 5/19-7/1 .836 Arroyo (152) 4/10-7/17 .825 Devers (207) 8/10-10/3 .780 Verdugo (295) 5/28-8/25 .756 Plawecki (150) 4/3-9/6 .687 Vazquez (156) 4/4-5/23 .618 Marwin (176) 4/3-6/6 (I did the best I could. Some better streaks might be found by deeper research.)

An overview of the difference between the February minor leaguers from 2021 to 2022 might be summed up like this: Our depth beyond the top 10-12 is better, now. Maybe everybody's is due to COVID keeping prospects from playing in 2020. Lets assume Casas is about the same, although one could argue he's a better prospect, now. Mayer and Yorke replaced Downs and Mata as our 2-3. That's a huge improvement, IMO. Duran and Downs were pushed down by those two, and some could argue their stock took a hit- large or small. Dalbec and Houck we never all that highly regarded, so losing them to graduation should not have offset the rise of Bello, Jordan, Seabold and others. Groome was #4 last winter. He didn't have a bad 2021, but he has slipped #8. (I actually like his chances more, now, than last winter.) Mata dropped due to surgery, and that is common (same with Ward.) I can see how other teams have also seen their farm grow and improve, alongside ours, but I just can't see how Law ranks us the same as last year.

Is than an opinion? LOL

Unless Cora is pitching in some money to sign him, I doubt it matters he's our manager.

Renfroe was a least a shiny 50 cent piece. Some might argue he was a five dollar bill like beni.

You might think you're not making a point, but the assumption was obvious.

Kinda takes the steam away fromyour Duran point.

Good point, but his H & A splits were pretty even in his previous season.

Franchy plus 4 prospects: #13 Josh Winckowski https://soxprospects.com/players/winckowski-josh.htm (unranked) Freddy Valdez https://soxprospects.com/players/valdez-freddy.htm #54 Grant Gambrell https://soxprospects.com/players/gambrell-grant.htm #55 Luis de la Rosa https://soxprospects.com/players/delarosa-luis.htm

Last Year's April 1st top 20 by soxprospects.com: Casas Downs Mata Groome Jimenez Dalbec Duran Houck (was not as highly regarded as some remember, at that time) Song Chatham Ward Wong Zeferjahn A Ramirez (traded away) Lugo Murphy Decker Cannon Bello Bonaci NOV 20, 2021 Casas Mayer Yorke Duran Downs Bello Jordan Groome Jimenez Mata Seabold Gonzalez Winckowski Murphy Bleis Wong Walter Song Ward McDonough (We added Binelas who was slotted #18 and Hamilton at #26.)